Soundpost Sessions SPOTLIGHT: Road Pony w/ Alright Alright

Join us for a night of thoughtfully written music in Longmont's premier listening room with Road Pony and Alright Alright Soundpost Sessions Spotlight is an intimate listening room concert series showcasing exceptional songwriting and live performance. Each show features two outstanding artists or bands—often pairing nationally touring acts with some of the best local talent from Colorado's Front Range and beyond. With impeccable sound, a welcoming community, and unforgettable performances, Spotlight creates a space where artists and audiences connect through the power of live music. Road Pony The country band with more twang than a banjo at a family reunion. Fronted by Megan Burtt and Lauren Frihauf, whose harmonies could melt the coldest heart, they’ve got local legends backing them—Dave Devine, Eric Moon, Braxton Kahn keeping the groove, and Kramer Kelling on bass, making sure the boot scootin’ never stops. Paying homage to the greats like Hank Williams and Loretta Lynn, Road Pony brings the classic country heat with a fresh spin. Saddle up, folks—it’s gonna be a wild, toe-tapping, whiskey-soaked ride! www.roadponymusic.com/ Alright Alright A duo adding new life and complexity to the concept of a family band... husband and wife Seth and China Kent of Alright Alright create orchestral folk for the open-minded and poetry for the broken-hearted. Though their songs often bear a deep sense of tradition, Alright Alright aren’t afraid to experiment with boundaries, testing the limits of genre and expectations for content. The pair share a genuine love of words, evidenced by their tendency to play with a mix of simple and unique language in elegantly rhymed lines: Muscatine, Muscatine / Why you gotta be so mean? / Pearl of the riverside / in the flood where my brother died. They are often inspired by the rich history of places they visit as well as by familiar haunts in their hometown of Denver, Colorado. From southern industrial towns to street signs to abandoned cars on I-70, there is a sense of rootedness that lends depth and dimension to their songwriting. These songs are as real as your kitchen table. Yet there’s also a striking vulnerability present, an openness and willingness to connect that draws fans from around the world to reach out and feel held by their music. Part of the appeal of Alright Alright’s sound comes from the contrasting vocal styles: Seth’s Dylan-esque warble feels like a throwback to a brighter, purer moment in folk music’s past, while China’s lush alto tempers that brightness with a husky richness (imagine grey skies shifting over cornfields). At times direct and innocent à la Sondre Lerche, other times intricate and vast, their music combines hints of great folk duos like Simon and Garfunkel (in the lighthearted, layered melodies of “Trying to be Free”) with moments of complete originality. The songs incorporate classic folk and Americana elements as well as more pared-down moments of fragile piano. Comfortable in both love and grief, Alright Alright’s music is as comforting and as surprising as family life can be. “I think I write music for myself, to heal myself, and I write music for people who need it,” says China. Seth agrees: “It’s an act of identity and empathy.” For Alright Alright, music making and family life are so intertwined that it’s sometimes hard to differentiate. Seth and China each prefer to write songs in relative solitude, then trade those distilled ideas with each other, allowing the song to grow in the other person’s hands. “We feel lucky to have the level of trust it takes to do this... to entrust your creative work to another person takes more than love-- it takes an enormous amount of respect.” While China often writes “from the outside looking in,” touching on the struggle to own and exert creative power, Seth’s writing tackles the subject from a slightly different angle: “I am constantly reminding myself to belong. That I do belong. Yes, I belong.” Sometimes their songs feel like introductory anthems designed to remind listeners that they are part of this world, and they are welcome here. https://www.alrightx2.com/